Sally Love
CHAIN REACTION
Good morning! I posted the following Thought of the Day last week and discussed irritation on that show. Today I want to look at another interesting aspect to this story … The Contagious Sub-Conscious! Read the following and then I’ll explain:
The clock hands in my home are whizzing around the clock face at warp speed right now. This is because I am preparing to sit some exams in June (which seems scarily close).
I am having to fit in a tremendous amount of hard work alongside running a business, looking after my high maintenance dog (due to her being blonde and there being an endless amount of mud around), and housework (I live alone and haven’t trained my dog to stack the dishwasher and manage a hoover – yet!) … and stay on top of all the other demands of life.
So, whilst walking my dog in the park yesterday I was listening to a lecture on my ipod (oh, the wonderful world of female multi-tasking!). The lecture started off very well and then someone in the audience gave a slight cough. Within two minutes half the audience were coughing away, all of them seemingly trying to give a longer and louder cough than the last. This continued all the way through to the end of the lecture. I found this very irritating because it not only obviously interfered with my ability to hear the lecturer properly, but because it irritated me I found I wasn’t able to absorb the information very well and had to keep rewinding it back all the time.
So, if you joined me on last week’s show, we now know WHY things irritate us … there’s a deeper reason! So let’s now look at The Contagious Sub-Conscious. The person that gave that first cough in the audience may have done it out of having a cough, however I don’t think that’s the case. We all have various things we do when we’re nervous or being challenged or when we’re feeling embarrassed. In this case, I feel the first person to cough was feeling some uncomfortable thoughts or emotions – maybe something like ‘’am I going to be able to follow this lecture?’’ or ‘’I shouldn’t have sat at the front because now I feel conspicuous’’ or ‘’I’m finding this course difficult’’.
Whatever uncomfortable thought or emotion it was, it would have initiated a nervous cough. The person probably didn’t even realise they coughed in the first place! This then started off a chain reaction, tapping into everyone else’s uncomfortable feelings. Before you know it, half the audience are coughing away, without realising it – all because the chain reaction is tapping into everyone’s sub-conscious. And guess what? … when the lecture came to a end – no coughs!!
So today, I want to focus on the sub-conscious – one part of you that contains old feelings & emotions that get tapped into when someone or something pushes your buttons.
Why do you always get jealous? Why do you find it difficult to trust? Why aren’t you confident enough? Why do you feel you aren’t good enough? Why do you keep attracting unavailable men or women into your love life? Why do you always give up?
What chain reaction is playing out for you?
All hail to Diana Ross – those of you around in the 80’s will be singing this song all day … and so you have me to thank for this chain reaction!